Hello Jenny, Readiris can perform OCR on scans of most, if not all, types. Unfortunately, there is no demo version and it isn't cheap, but it does a very good job.
The URL is: <http://www.irislink.com/c2-1538-189/Readiris-for-Mac---OCR-Software.aspx > Cheers, Anne On May 20, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Jenny Kennedy (Howard) wrote: > > Hi there, > > Hopefully somebody out there can help me. > I've 2 somewhat related things. > > First. > I have documents, PDFs, and others that are text but it is the kind of > text that is just an image of text. I can not access them and need to > for a project I'm working on. I thought I heard someplace that google > had a tool that would convert say Jpg files or PDFs that are images of > pages with text into accessable documents. Is this true? or is there > software that can convert scanned images into text? If so where? > > Secondly I want to try the Kurtzwiel 3000 software for the Mac as it > seems as if it would do the above task. However when I go to download > the demo I get a file not found message. Have tried downloading > directly from K.E.S. inc's webpage and via third parties like > download.comish type places and nothing I try gets me the download. > Anyone know where I can find a trial copy? I've contacted Kurtzwiel > and still waiting on what they are going to say. Thought I'd check > here as well. > > Thank you for any help you can offer. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
